Crater Could Solve 1908 Tunguska Meteor Mystery


	Crater Could Solve 1908 Tunguska Meteor Mystery

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6-28-2007 11:17 PM

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In late
June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska,
<SPAN id="lw_1182854856_0">Siberia</SPAN>, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a
meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any
impact craters have been discovered. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070626/sc_space/cratercouldsolve1908tunguskameteormystery"><P>Astronomers
have been left to guess whether the object was an asteroid or a comet, and
figuring out what it was would allow better modeling of potential future
calamities. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070626/sc_space/cratercouldsolve1908tunguskameteormystery"><P>Italian
researchers now think they've found a smoking gun: The 164-foot-deep <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/cratercouldsolve1908tunguskameteormystery/23522009/SIG=16mv7mlth/*http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070626_lake_cheko_02.jpg&cap=Lake+Cheko%2C+in+the+Siberian+region+of+Tunguska.+Credit:+www-th.bo.infn.it%2Ftunguska+%2F+University+of+Bologna" rel="nofollow">Lake Cheko</A>, located just 5 miles northwest of the epicenter of destruction. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/59151C7D-4D69-4784-ABC3-20C76DAE62A0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>